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Feb. 5, 2013|244 views

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Very low calorie diets (VLCD)—which require you to consume just a few hundred caloriesdaily, for weeks—can certainly result in significant weight loss. But the costsare high. Such diets do not teach your body to be satisfied with reasonablequantities of food. Rather, they tell your body you’re starving. By forcingyour metabolism into survival mode, you set yourself up for rebound weightgain, or worse.

Starving yourself is not the right way to lose weight. Ifyou want to keep the weight off you simply musteat a balanced diet. This would exclude any diet that requires you to nearlyeliminate an entire food group. About a decade ago, the low-carbohydrate dietcraze swept the country. In case you missed it, this “low-carb” dietessentially banned carbohydrates, while encouraging high intakes of protein.Some people may have lost weight on this diet, but many experts agreed that itwas ultimately unhealthy. People were eating high amounts of fat—especiallysaturated fat—from meats like bacon. And that simply wasn’t healthy. Some dieter’scholesterol levels soared, while others experienced kidney and other problems.

In fact, a recent study looked at two types of diets featuring “acute calorierestriction”. One was low fat/high carbohydrate, while the other was highfat/low carbohydrate. Although subjects lost weight on both of thesecalorie-restricted diets, the diet that featured low carbs and high fatencouraged insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a condition that oftenprecedes type 2 diabetes. In contrast, the high carb/low fat diet led toimproved insulin sensitivity.

I think this illustrates my point that diets that banish certain nutrients—in this casecarbohydrates—are simply not healthy in the long run, regardless of anytemporary weight loss you might achieve. You’ve got to be real on your way toideal.